Paging Dr. Hamblin: Everyone Wants to Check My Temperature
(WorldNews Health)

Editor`s Note: Every Wednesday, James Hamblin takes questions from readers about health-related curiosities, concerns, and obsessions. Have one? Email him at paging.dr.hamblin@theatlantic.com . Dear Dr. Hamblin, I`m an attorney and I`ve been working from home. Yesterday I had to visit several courthouses to pick up files. At the security checks at the entrance, they had some kind of infrared camera to check people`s temperature. At one courthouse, I came in through the employee garage and someone stopped me and put a thermometer to my forehead. I live in Miami, my car`s AC is broken, and I had been stuck in traffic and was soaked in sweat. Yet my temperature apparently was 97 degrees, and I...